St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

sterner sex. This proposition, as gen
eral rule, is true, but at the same time it
is liable to many exceptions. Every
beard is not glory. Some are thin, and
spare, and scraggly, weak, consumptive
and forlOrn. Others are course, rough,
backwoodSv and hard. Others are stiff,
sS;hlort-cropped, ugly and repulsive.
and symmetry, that glossy, silky rich
ness, and voluptuOusness that makes
the beard of man a glory and honor like
the beard of Aaron. st. Paul is well
supplied with the glory kind.
Congressman Rice has noble beard,
kind of sable-silver beard that has
for years been a glory and an honor to
its owner.
Judge Flandrau does not wear full
beard. He doesn't believe in being
full. When he visited the fOunt of re-
newed youth in South America. the
managers directed him never to wear
structiOn religiously. He sports only
mOuStache and gOatee which give him
very aristocratic appearance.
w. Z. Murray wears nothing but a
moustache after the style of Napoleon
| LII. The corporation attorney says he
is not particularly proud of his French
ancestry, but sometimes when he is
talking with Capt. Berkey he is COM
PEELED to talk French, in order to make
the captain understand him, and it
comes awkward to talk his native lang
uage without a mOuStache.
Capt. Berkey, like Daniel in the lions
den, wears a full beard and mustache,
which well becomes his style of face
He says both have grown gray in the
great work which he has been engaged
in for so many years of getting Murray
into the paths of rectitude and virtue.
John w. Roche, the city comptroller,
is said to be exceedingly proud and not
little vain of his beautiful auburn
whiskers and mustache, which are heavy
and massive. AL the ladies in the city
are striving with salaratuS water to give
their hair the beautiful auburn hue of
Mr.. ROche'S WhiSkerS and muStache, SO
lovely.
The weight of business and the cares
of life are causing the large, dark, flow
ing beard of Thomas Cochran, Jr., to be-
come fiecked with white.
When Col. Allen was an alderman,
and before he went out of the hotel bus
mess, he wore magnificent heavy
black beard ond would be wearing it
now but for little trick that he under
took to play off on President Cleveland.
A few months ago he made trip to.
Alaska over the Northern Pacific road.
On that occasion he Wore his beard out
as far as Glend:ve when be had it all
shaved off, and from there on to Alaska
he successfully passed himself off as
the president, and was Toasted and
honored as the chief magistrate at all
the chief cities and lived all the way n
clover.
Judge Chandler used to wear a full
beard, but he says it gave him SO much
trouble with the ladies that he sacrificed
it together.
W. III. Dixon formerly wore beauti-
full auburn beard upon his classic face,
but he sacrificed it. He left his mus
tache, though, because, as he says,
mustache is SO much more distingue.
A. Il. c. Pierson, the well-knOwn Ma
son, wears the most flowing drapery of
the face of any man in st. Paul.
The beard that adOrnS DR.. Days
handsome face is the most philosophical
one in town unless it be that of Dr.
Murphy. The latter has rather the most
robust one.
j. w. McClung's wavy beard is kept
in condition that is altogether too
democratic. 1t should go to the barber.
Maj. Bracket has one that any man
should be proud of. 1t is dark and flow
ing and is very much admired by the
ladies of Minneapolis.
ID. w. Ingersoll has always worn
full beard, and probably always will.
He won't tolerate mustache though.
DIR. Murphy pretends not to be proud,
but it is understood that he devoteS all
his leisure moments to cultivating his
mustache and whiskers, and at night
he puts them up in papers with as much
care as a society belle devoteS to her
raven locks.
r. c. Judson cultivates heavy, flow
ing, dark brown beard, which glistens
like FURNISHED gold.
John Summers of the Windsor hotel,
boasts, with excusable pride, of his ele-
CANT, heavy, brown beard and mus
tache.
A. B. Stickney has too much business
to attend to, and therefore cannot do
justice to one of the most lovely auburn
boards in st. Paul. Occasionally, when
he goes to New York he gets the Fifth
Avenue hotel barber to put it in shape.
At all other times it is wholly neglected.
ii. r. Bigelow, the neStOr of the legal
fraternity of Ramsey county, and Capt.
Blakeley are both very Indifferent to
their boards and allowed them to run
wild like an unweeded garden.
j. M. Hannaford lives in the hope of
one day blooming forth with beard
is he now sports beautiful muStache
to which he devOtes great deal OF at
tention.
1t is number of years since III. j.
Strouse wore beard. He has never,
though, been known to be without a
heavy mustache. He has now COM
menced the cultivation, in the most in
dustrious manner, of large, heavy
beard, something after the style of the